Another month, another major outage at a major technology company affecting the day-to-day operations of businesses worldwide. When we started writing this blog in the middle of November 2025, the big news regarding cloud resilience and business continuity was focused on the major (and separate) outages suffered in October by AWS and Azure, two of the big three cloud service

The dust has largely settled on the major October 2025 outages at two of the world’s three big cloud providers. Those outages showed it’s a case of when another outage will occur rather than if it will occur. Given the spiderweb-like nature of cloud provider influences on business operations, attention is now firmly on resilience. Building cloud resilience means avoiding

To kick this blog off, we’re going to do something we’ve never done before and that most other technology companies probably haven’t done either – we’re going to quote from the film and television review-aggregation website, Rotten Tomatoes. Specifically, the opening description of the television series, Ray Donovan. “Ray Donovan is a ‘fixer’ for Hollywood’s elite. He is the go-to

October 2025 saw two of the world’s biggest cloud service providers suffer major outages – Azure from Microsoft and Amazon’s AWS. Given the extensive footprint of these two behemoths of the cloud computing world, the impact was widespread and significant. The outages also brought into even sharper focus an issue that has been creeping up the priority lists of both